alternatively vs alternately
Definitions
adverb
- in place of, or as an alternative to
Examples
Alternatively, anyone can take part in the coffee morning and hold their own event.
Alternatively, you could use a three pin plug with a built-in thermostat, available from electrical retailers.
Alternatively, instead of decomposing the silane, you can liquefy it by refrigerating it down to -112°C.
Definitions
adverb
- in an alternating sequence or position
Examples
A couple of phone calls, arranged by a deep-sea diver I came to know while working on a story on the Miskito Coast of Nicaragua, led me to an alternately boastful and paranoidly surreptitious man named Steve.
They were so beautifully typeset, and their tone was just captivating — alternately casual and buffer-overflowingly technical.
In order for cyclothymia to be diagnosed, hypomanic symptoms and depressive symptoms must be present alternately for at least two years.
